Gregory B. Saathoff, M.D.

Gregory Saathoff, MD, is a
psychiatrist who is Associate Professor of Research in the
Departments of Public Health Sciences and Emergency
Medicine at the University
of Virginia School of Medicine. He also serves as
Executive Director of the University of Virginia's Critical
Incident Analysis Group (CIAG) and since 1996 has served as the FBI's
Conflict Resolution Specialist. He continues to serve in this
capacity as the chief psychiatric consultant for the FBI's Behavioral
Analysis Units and Crisis Negotiation Unit.

After graduating from the University of
Missouri School of Medicine, Dr. Saathoff
completed residency training in psychiatry at the
University of Virginia in Charlottesville. From 1985 to 1994,
Dr. Saathoff served as a Major in the United States Army
Reserves Psychiatry Medical Corps. He was called from Reserve Duty
during Operation Desert Storm and deployed as a medical corps
psychiatrist, earning the Army Commendation Medal in 1991. As a member
of the University of Virginia’s Kuwait Project, he studied societal
trauma in Kuwait subsequent to the Iraqi occupation and has served on
the faculty of the Saudi-U.S. Universities Project located at the
King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In addition to
the Middle East, Dr. Saathoff’s work has taken him to
projects in the former Soviet Union, Western Europe and Australia.

In 2006, Dr. Saathoff was
appointed to the Research Advisory Board of the FBI’s
National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. He has written “The
Crisis Guide to Psychotropic Drugs and Poisons” for the FBI’s
Crisis Negotiation Unit. Dr. Saathoff is also an author of
“Criminal Poisoning: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives,” published in
2011.

Dr. Saathoff has
published in a number of areas including
personality disorders, police psychiatry, post-traumatic
stress disorders, criminal poisoning, public response to weapons
of mass destruction, and personnel reliability and its
relationship to biosecurity and national security. He has
testified before the US House of Representatives, the US Senate and the
US Commission on Civil Rights. In 2009 he was authorized by Federal
Chief Judge Royce Lamberth to chair the Expert Behavioral Analysis
Panel responsible for reviewing the criminal case file and psychiatric
records of Bruce Edwards Ivins, PhD. The US Department of Justice
determined this scientist to be solely responsible for the mailed
anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has
recognized Dr. Saathoff on five separate occasions for his
service on various projects and initiatives.